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Samuel Richardson's 1740 novel "Pamela" is written from the viewpoint of a young maidservant whose employer, the wealthy Mr B-, tries desperately to seduce her, even kidnapping her and keeping her prisoner in a lonely farmhouse. Eventually, impressed (not to say frustrated) by Pamela's impregnable virtue, he falls in love with and proposes marriage to her. She eagerly accepts, apparently forgetting all his behaviour; and they settle down to a life of respectable bliss.
Popular as the novel was, some people thought its morality questionable, even mercenary; and one of these was Henry Fielding. The year after "Pamela" was published, Fielding produced an anonymous parody called "Shamela." In this version, Shamela makes no bones about her motives: "I once thought to make a little fortune by my person; I now think to make a great one by my virtue." Mr B- becomes Mr Booby, and the tussles between the two are highly comic.
Fielding seemed fascinated by the comic possibilities of Pamela; in his later novel "Joseph Andrews," Pamela's brother is besieged by Mr B's sister, Lady Booby, and defends his virginity as firmly as Richardson's heroine defends hers.
Popular as the novel was, some people thought its morality questionable, even mercenary; and one of these was Henry Fielding. The year after "Pamela" was published, Fielding produced an anonymous parody called "Shamela." In this version, Shamela makes no bones about her motives: "I once thought to make a little fortune by my person; I now think to make a great one by my virtue." Mr B- becomes Mr Booby, and the tussles between the two are highly comic.
Fielding seemed fascinated by the comic possibilities of Pamela; in his later novel "Joseph Andrews," Pamela's brother is besieged by Mr B's sister, Lady Booby, and defends his virginity as firmly as Richardson's heroine defends hers.
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